Michigan's Biggest Deals 2013

Here's a look at the biggest mergers and acquisitions in Michigan for 2013. You can manipulate the data by sliding the value of transactions, clicking on various categories or mousing over the individual lines to see detailed information about each deal. You can also download the entire list in PDF or excel format.

03/14/14
Executives leading post-recession merger and acquisition deals spent much of the past three years playing a high-stakes game of "Risk." The objective: Assemble operations in strategic geographical locales — go global — and dominate the competition.

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Kalamazoo-based Ablative Solutions Inc. is being watched as it attracts investment dollars. But another big reason to watch this company is the force of the people behind it. Namely, the Fischell family.

03/14/14
The emergence of crowdfunding provides not only a new mechanism for startups to solicit funding, but an opportunity for entrepreneurs to serve a new and growing market. And with that, a handful of portals are in the works.

03/14/14
Grow Michigan LLC, a Plymouth-based investment platform founded in February 2013 and funded by the Michigan Strategic Fund and 13 regional or community banks in the state, provided $20.1 million in growth capital to 12 small businesses in its first year of lending.

03/14/14
Chris Witkowsky, a writer with Thomson Reuters' pehub.com — the influential website devoted to private equity and venture capital — gave a big shout-out to Detroit-based Huron Capital Partners LLC in December, adding it to his list of the hottest 16 funds in the world.

03/14/14
When Gov. Rick Snyder, a former venture capitalist, signed Public Act 264 into law in December, Michigan became the fourth state to create an intrastate exemption for equity crowdfunding. The new law, which allows Michigan companies to sell shares over the Internet to non-accredited investors, sailed through the state's normally combative legislature in two months with only one nay vote.